A recent comparison of move prediction systems for Go can be found here (IEEE CIG 2012 proceedings)
http://geneura.ugr.es/cig2012/papers/paper82.pdf Simon Lucas From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Clark Sent: 02 May 2013 03:10 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Computer-go] MCTS + Neural Networks? Thanks for the link! Looks like a good paper -- I will read it more carefully shortly. Ignoring computational speed for a moment, is it a reasonable assumption that an algorithm that plays a NN-proposed tactical move 50% of the time, and a random move 50% of the time, should outperform an algorithm that plays a random move 100% of the time? So it's just a case of how many playouts do we lose by employing the NN (GPUs to the rescue?). For reference, I was using 25 input nodes, 25 output nodes, ~50 hidden nodes. I guess ultimately it comes down to "make a bot and prove it" :) -Steven On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:50 PM, George Dahl <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I don't know if neural nets that predict moves have been helpful in any strong bots, but predicting expert moves with neural nets is certainly old news. See http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2008/go_paper.pdf There might be a place for artificial neural nets in a strong Go playing program, but it is an open question on how to incorporate neural nets well. Software like neurgo used a lot of expert features along with a neural net for global position evaluation and I tried (with very little success) to predict ownership of points on the board using a neural net. It is very hard to get neural nets to help a standard MCTS bot a lot because the neural net needs to be good at whatever it is supposed to be doing and still probably very fast to be useful. - George On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Steven Clark <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello all- Has anyone successfully used neural nets to help guide MC playouts? Has anyone used NN to learn patterns larger than 3x3? I'm working on a grad-school project, and discovered a few interesting things. After analyzing 10,000+ high-dan games from KGS, I find that more than 50% of the time, moves are played within a 5x5 window centered at the opponent's previous move (call this a "tactical" move, vs a strategic move). I used the FANN library to learn these 5x5 patterns, and found that the NN could predict tactical moves with ~27% accuracy (and with a >50% chance that the answer would be in the top 3 moves proposed by the NN). Is this old news? Are neural nets just too slow to be helpful to MC (reduce the playout rate too much?) Thoughts welcome. I will be up late finishing the report since it is due tomorrow ;) -Steven _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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